Editors from Physics World magazine and its sister website physicsworld.com talk to leading scientists and science commentators about cutting-edge physics research, science education and the cultural and political issues shaping the international scientific community.

Dr. Ben Tippett and his team of physicists believe that anyone can understand physics. Black Holes! Lightning! Coronal Mass Ejections! Quantum Mechanics! Fortnightly, they explain a topic from advanced physics, using explanations, experiments and fun metaphors to a non-physicist guest. Visit the website to see a list of topics sorted by physics field.

Science Pie is a new independent podcast about physics, history, literature and engineering, exploring one fascinating topic per 15-minute episode. Manufactured in-house by Annika Brockschmidt and Dennis Schulz.

Radio Physics is for everyone! You don't have to be a scientist or even an aficionado to be fascinated by the questions and answers that you'll hear between 4:30 and 5:00 on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Radio Physics is a new collaboration with top high school physics students from Aspen to Rifle, the Aspen Center for Physics, and KDNK Community Radio in Carbondale. Students interview one of the more than 1,000 physicists who visit the Aspen Center for Physics every year. You'll want to know the answer to the questions that they ask. Tune in!

Erin McGathy (from the "This Feels Terrible" and "Harmontown" podcasts and the USB theater in LA) joins us! Dr. Rupinder Brar and Dr. Amanda Bauer have both returned after WAY TOO LONG! We talk about the milky way! dust and pancakes. dusty pancakes. that'd be a great name! Oh man what a great show! this episode is GREAT! Listen past the end music for some addition great conversing. wooooooooooooooooo

Dr. Katie Mack and I talk about big bang stuff. the question is from bob: "Hello again Ben. I've found and listened to the QB episodes. Thanks for the help with locating them. Since you seem to have ready access to a cosmologist, I'd like to offer for QB a trio of related cosmological questions that have bugged me for some time. 1. How do we know that all the matter in the universe came from the big bang? 2. How do we know that the big bang did not expand into an existing precursor universe? (It seems plausible to me that this may be the case but we have no way to know because the hyperinflation immediately after the big bang and accelerating expansion due to dark energy will permanently keep us outside of the light cone of any event in this hypothetical precursor universe. I'm not fond of unfalsifiable theories...)"

SciPie goes Sci-Fi: There are hardly any stories about a whole society being allowed to use time machines like we use planes today. Why is that? In our new episode, we talk about general relativity and Shakespeare oscillating between the literary figure he is today and a male version of an It-girl. We also give hints on how to destroy the financial system. Musik von Kevin McLeod, Cosmic Analog Ensemble, Kevin McLeod, Chris Zabriskie, Jason Shaw, Kevin McLeod, Cloudkicker, Kelly Latimore and Yamin Alma. Find the complete tracklist here. This is the city of Worms. To subscribe to Science Pie, use the RSS-Feed:Science Pie (English) RSS
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Vicky Scowcroft and David Tsang were talkin' to me, and i was like "Yoooo what kind of show topic should we do" and Vicky was like "Cepheid Variables" so i was like... hmm. A star who tells us about distance and travelling... Who else should I ask on the show to talk about these crazy stars, but Lucy Knisley, star of the comic book world and the travel memoir? mmm. happy winter, everyone.

I was super excited about this Episode! Our Guest is Patrick McHale! We Talk about CPT symmetry (Charge-Parity-Time inversion symmetry), which leads to discussions about antimatter, and the nature of time. it's a SUPER EPISODE! It goes ON AND ON! CRAZY AWESOME PHYSICS! Physicists Tia Miceli and Ryan Martin!

email your questions to tiphyter@titaniumphysics.com the question today: "Howdy, The Higgs boson turned out to be a massive particle from what I understand. It is also supposed to be a field through which everything moves. So, there must be a lot of them, I reason. So, could this be the missing mass of the universe? Maybe there is some obvious reason that it is not, but I have not heard the idea mentioned and it seems obvious to me."

Mr. Noah Zimmerman joins us to talk about nuclear magnetic resonance. you know MRIs? "Magnetic resonance Imaging" is what it stands for, "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging" is what it actually stands for. Essentially, magnets are used to make the nuclei in your atoms stand up and dance. Our experts are the Mighty Dr. Fiona Burnell, and the Mighty Dr. Abby Shockley. THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!

When we want to describe a big number, we say things such as "almost the distance between the earth and the moon" or utter some other attempt to make the number understandable. But there are numbers which force us to up our game of comparing. In this episode, we enter into the field of homeopathy, a field with numbers that are so exceptionally big that common comparisons just won't do the trick. Music by Salapakka Sound System, Monroeville Music Center, Chris Zabriskie, Josh Woodward, Kevin McLeod and the Breuss Arrizabalaga Quartet. Using sound effects by Mike Koenig and Caroline Ford. Find the detailed tracklisting for all episodes here.null
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Burnout, depression, or whatever you want to call it, seems to be omnipresent these days - but not for the first time in history. As we look back, we feature strange treatments, an exhausted population, what people feared sex had to do with it, the horror of the trenches and a time in which the people and their nerves didn't seem to be able to keep up.Tune in, share this episode with all of your friends and keep Science Pie going! Produced by Annika Brockschmidt and Dennis Schulz. Music by Breuss Arrizabalaga Quartet, Chris Zabriskie, Kevin McLeod, Joe Rosey, Gilbert and Friedland, Julian Sartorius, Kosta T, Anker-Orchester and Jason Shaw. Find the complete tracklist here. For further reading, we collected the sources and the literature for this podcast here.
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We are really, really excited about our second episode, which will be the first episode for us to tackle the fields of history and literature! During the 1930s, many well-known writers (among lots of other people, of course) had to emigrate from Germany to avoid being prosecuted by the Nazi regime. One of the most famous immigrants to America: Nobel prize laureate Thomas Mann. Here I will talk about the way he saw America and especially the one person who, for him, encorporated everything that America was about.We feature Eldorado, Arcadia, campaigning, good and evil, the devil and the monk.Tune in, get hooked and please share with all of your amazing friends! Produced by Annika Brockschmidt and Dennis Schulz. Music by Jason Shaw, Kevin McLeod, Chris Zabriskie, the United State Marine Band, the Skidmore College Orchestra, Helen Trix, the Victor Herbert Orchestra, Welcome Wizard, the Illinois Brass Band and Kosta T. Find the complete tracklist here. For further reading, we collected the...
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Christopher Reynaga is an awesome author, and he has written the best story ever which is called “I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee” . look it up, a link to a podcast reading of the story will be on teh website. Anyway, I wanted to talk to him so I told him that I'd explain many worlds Quantum mechanics to him. well, that and copenhagen interpretation, why not. So this week's episode is where the math side of physics meets the philosophy side of physics! Experts are Ken Clark and Tia Miceli .